Seat cover



March 23 1926. 1,577,883

0. M. THOMAS ET AL SEAT COVER Filed April 14, 1925 Z X W Patented Mar. 23, 3935.

UNITED STATE FATENT FFEQE.

ORIN M. THOMAS AND HOW'ARD FISHER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SEAT covnn.

Application filed April 14, 1925.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ORIN M. THOMAS and HOWARD FIsHnn, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of Cal fornia, have jointly invented new and use ful Improvements in Seat Covers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements 1n seat covers and more particularly to that type which is adapted for use with vending machines. The primary object of our invention is to provide anew and useful toilet seat cover which is so constructed that the feed mechanism of a vending machine may most effectively engage and project sufficient of the lowermost cover of a stack of covers from a vending machine without disturbing the remaining covers of said stack and so that the said projecting portion may be easily grasped by the hand of the operator to withdraw said cover from the machine.

lVith this and other objects in view our invention comprises the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a plan of our improved seat cover when unfolded; Fig. 2 is a view of said cover when folded, and in condition to be used in a vending machine, and Fig. 3 is a section of a detail taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing let A indicate our improved sanitary toilet seat cover which is made out of thin paper or other suitable material and conforms in size and shape with the size and shape of a toilet seat. This cover body is adapted to be folded upon the broken lines indicated in Fi 1 into the small packet B shown in Fig. 2 and is perforated at D so that when the body is folded the. perforations in the different folds coincide forming a recess backed by a plural- Serial No. 22,969.

ity of thicknesses of the body. In this man nor a lug or pin for feeding a cover one at a time from a stack of covers in a vending machine may be made to engage the lowermost'cover in said recess without protruding through the cover so engaged and attempting to feed an adjacent cover out of turn and jamming the machine. As shown the cover is perforated four times thus providmg recess equal in depth to four times the thickness of the body constituting the cover. In this manner a more substantial engagement between the feed device and the cover is effected.

The invention is not restricted in use to seat covers as the folded article constructed in accordance "with our invention may be a seat cover, a napkin or any other article desired.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an article of manufacture a body of thin material folded into a compact packet, part of the adjacent folds thereof being perforated and the perforations coinciding to produce a recess on one side and a solid backing over said recess on the other side so that an instrument may be made to en.

gage said packet in said recess to move it and be prevented from projecting through the packet. i

As a new article of manufacture a oodv of thin material folded into a compact packet, the adjacent folds thereof being perforated and the perforations coinciding to produce an opening in depth equal to a plurality of thicknesses of said folds and so that an instrument may more effectively ongage said packet to move the same.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification.

ORIN M. Tl-IOiviAS. HOW ARD FISHER. 

